Improvement in torsion-springs for vehicles



C. W. SALADEE.

Improvement in Torsion-Springs for Vehicles.

No. 132,696. Paten ted Och 29,1372.

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CYRUS W. SALADEE, OF ST. OATHARINES, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND L. DOBBINS, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT l N TORSION-SPRINGS FOR VEHlCLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,696, dated October 29, 1872.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS W. SALADEE, of St. Gatharines, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new Improvements in Torsional Springs for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification embodying my invention.

Nature and Object.

My present invention has for its object the application of a suitable friction-bearing for the outer ends of the lateral arms of torsional springs.

The Drawing.

Figure l is a side elevation of torsional springs arranged upon the bolster of a wagon upon the plan of some of my former patents. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view, showing slides P and P, in which any number of arms F required may find a bearing.

These slides P have a flange on each side,

Claim.

In torsional springs, the friction-slides P and P, in combination with the outer ends of the lateral arms F, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

. CYRUS W. SALADEE.

Witnesses E. A. SALADEE, JOHN MURRAY. 

